just reported that the lahar is travelling down the Whangaehu River and the front of it has passed the tangiwai bridges without damage - high river levels carrying lots of debris picked up fom the banks
just reported that the lahar is travelling down the Whangaehu River and the front of it has passed the tangiwai bridges without damage - high river levels carrying lots of debris picked up fom the banks
That's a great run, and goes on forever. It's easily accessed from a lift, with minimal hiking.Quote:
Wouldn't mind skinning up someday to make some turns down that face:
http://www.grantkaye.com/images/ruapehu/IMGP0085.jpg
This photo also shows the exact location of the start of that enormous 2003 avalanche that has been posted about many times on this board, including my TR here.
i agree. especially after reading all that TPS crap.......f-that.Quote:
Originally Posted by powstash
wow can't believe it spewed! no shit?
i skied ruapehu once, and looked into that cauldron of nastiness. the kayaker looks crazy -- is he taking samples?? we look for microbes in crazy ass places like that.......traveling for thesis work rocks :)
i just heard a rumour that the roads around Mt Ruapehu Have been closed for an expected laha; resulting from a crater lake breech?
Edit: breaking news: I'm totally late to this party.
I've just watched the news and I can't believe they didn't have a camera set up on it? The certainty of it happening multiplied by the likelyhood of it looking good means that should have been a gi'me. Lame...
the first image is the flowmeter in the whangaehu river in normal summer conditions
followed by todays lahar and then what it looks like now.
if I'm reading the flowmeter results properly, it peaked at 655cumecs or about 164 thousand gallons per second
AP/Yahoo reports coming out. Check out the video link
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070318/...aland_mud_flow
Kind of reminds me of the Toutle when St Helens blew...
edit - article with some visual aids: http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/marlbor...7336a6422.html (repeating the visual aid in post#1 but with some interesting commentary) pretty cool.